Mar de fondo

The spiritual tale of a planet: the end of a world, the beginning of another, and how that all affects a few characters assigned key positions. A princess and a Knight seeking to save their world, and to find their own truth. Masters who believe — a little too soon, perhaps — to have already found it. A decaying Empire, and a charismatic usurper... And through it all, the influence of a spiritual world whose constant, if invisible, presence is felt at different levels by those taking part in this saga.

Between wars (1918-1939) Benjamin Jarnes (1888-1949) was considered among the most appreciated Spanish writers, and his novels were distinguished by the European critiques of the time. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," along "Paula y Paulita," "Escenas junto a la muerte" and "Teoria del zumbel," belong to a fiction cycle, unique in the peninsular narrative of those years; novels in which Jarnes experiments with the new forms of metafiction to highlight the existential condition of the human being in the newly technified mass society. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," simultaneously "agonic" and...

Bajo los cerezos en flor Jennie Lucas Su embarazo despertó en él un implacable deseo de asegurar lo que era suyo. La heredera engañada Dani Wade Él tenía motivos ocultos... pero ella no lo sabía.

Portraying the discontinuity of the streets of Barcelona, of time, and, above all, of the existence of each one of its inhabitants, this noir novel turns the everyday into something epic. Five chapters contain five independent stories with characters that speak for themselves yet share the same tone, and the Gracia neighborhood serves as the main line that connects them. The plot revolves around a man named José García, who is killed by his own son, also named José García. The event is witnessed by a neighbor who bears the same name and is reminded of another murder he had seen years...